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# riddance

«riddance» in Mova's school dictionary: **The act of getting rid of something unwanted; «good…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

The act of getting rid of something unwanted; «good riddance» means glad to see the bad thing go. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/riddance/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a remark that someone is glad to be free of a nuisance or a bad neighbour

### examples

- «Good riddance,» said the boy when the bully left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/riddance/#x1)
- Getting rid of the old bed was a riddance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/riddance/#x2)
- We were glad of the riddance of the broken fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/riddance/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «riddance» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/riddance/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.